Tanzania has been thrown into a state of shock and mourning after at least 57 people died following the explosion of a fuel tanker. The victims got burnt while scooping fuel from the tanker which was involved in an accident in Morogoro, some 200 kilometres away from Tanzania’s economic hub, Dar es Salaam. Local residents told […]
Lawyer Mounir Baatour officially announced his candidacy for the Tunisian presidency Thursday, becoming the first known openly gay presidential candidate in the Arab world and heralding a major step forward for LGBT rights in a country that still criminalizes gay sex. Baatour, the president of Tunisia’s Liberal Party, presented his candidacy to the country’s election […]
The Lobi Youth Association has sent a congratulatory message to the president (the equivalent of a Regional Minister) of the Bounkani Region, Hien Phillipe who has been elevated to the position of Coordinator of all regional coordinators. Ivorian President, His Excellency President Alassane Dramani Ouattara presented a plaque to Hien Philippe at a ceremony in […]
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday arrived in the Angolan capital, Luanda, to begin a two-day official visit to that country. The visit, the first by a sitting Ghanaian president, was at the behest of the Angolan President, Joao Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço. The visit is expected to, among other things, strengthen further the longstanding […]
The British NGO Global Witness has alleged financial malfeasance against the son of the president of the Republic of Congo, Christel Denis Sassou Nguesso. The group said it had discovered documents pointing to the siphoning of over $50 million in public funds by President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s son. Their report indicates the money received would […]
The appearance of a snake in Ondo State parliament forced the proceedings into an indefinite halt as the lawmakers run for their lives. A spokesperson for the lawmakers said; “WHEN WE WERE ABOUT TO ENTER INTO PLENARY, A BIG SNAKE JUST RAN OUT OF THE CHAMBER WHICH DISRUPTED OUR SITTING AND WE HAD TO HURRIEDLY […]
Schoolgirls who have reached puberty will now receive free sanitary towels from the government, a new law aimed at minimising absenteeism and putting them at par with their male counterparts says. The Basic Education Amendment Act places the responsibility of providing free, sufficient and quality sanitary towels on the government in order to reduce the […]
Beijing is withholding the $4.9 billion needed to finish the project, once a flagship for Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road initiative. Gleaming concrete sleepers run across a new railway bridge in Kenya, the latest stretch of a Chinese-built line from the coast all the way to Uganda. Only, it doesn’t quite reach the border. Instead, […]
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, on Monday, released details of his assets contained in the Code of Conduct Bureau 1 declared at the High Court of Oyo State on May 28, 2019, indicating that he was worth about N50bn in assets at that time. According to details of the asset form, the governor had cash […]
Ashley Abrahams, a 37-year-old homeless man, is one of over 100,000 regular heroin users in South Africa, according to a survey published in March by European project ENACT, which fights organised transnational crimes. Heroin has been wreaking havoc in South Africa’s cities and rural areas since the early 2000s, with a trafficking market generating about […]
A Zimbabwe opposition lawmaker was charged on Tuesday with subversion, his lawyer said, after a video surfaced where he purportedly said President Emmerson Mnangagwa would be overthrown before the next election in 2023. Mnangagwa, 76, has promised to break with the past ways of his authoritarian predecessor Robert Mugabe, who was removed after a 2017 […]
Nigerian Authorities have seized jewelry and a customized gold iphone worth 40 Million Dollars from former Minister of Petroleum in that country, Diezani Alison-Madueke. The order for the seizure was given by Justice Nicholas Oweibo, a High Court Judge. In granting the order, Justice Oweibo directed the applicant, EFCC, to publish the interim forfeiture order […]
